Workshops
Aquinas, Alfarabi, Avicenna, Averroes, Maimonides & Albertus
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Kalamazoo International Medieval Congress
12-15 May 2016
Call For Papers
The Aquinas and ‘the Arabs’ International Working Group (AAIWG) will again sponsor two (2) sessions of three (3) papers for a total of six (6) presentations at the Kalamazoo International Medieval Congress.
The title & topic of the sessions is
“Classical Philosophy in the Lands of Islam
and Its Influence”
Those interested in presenting should send
(1) a CV, (2) a one page title and abstract, and (3) a completed Participant Information Sheet to
Prof. Richard C. Taylor (Richard.Taylor@Marquette.edu)
Deadline:
preferred 1 September 2015,
final 15 September 2015
The Congress Call For Papers containing the Participant Information Sheet is available at http://wmich.edu/medieval/files/medieval-call-for-papers-2016.pdf
The Participant Information Sheet is also available as a one-page download by clicking HERE.
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Kalamazoo International Medieval Congress
14-17 May 2015
Friday 15 May 2015 10:00 - 11:30 am
Session 175, Valley III Stinson Lounge
Classical Philosophy in the Lands of Islam and Its Influence I
Sponsor: Aquinas and ‘the Arabs’ International Working Group
Organizer: Richard C. Taylor, Marquette Univ./DeWulf Mansion Centre, KU Leuven
Presider: Richard C. Taylor
Pseudo-Ammonius Ārā’ al-falāsifa and Its Influence on Early Ismā’īlī Thought
Janis Esots, Institute of Ismaili Studies, London
Putting Philosophy in Its Place: Augustine and Ghazali on Philosophy in
Religious Discourse
Julie Swanstrom, Armstrong State Univ.
Divine Exemplarity and the Integrity of Created Natures: Aquinas, the Summa
fratris Alexandri , and Avicenna
Reginald M. Lynch, OP, Pontifical College Josephinum
Friday 15 May 2015, 1:30 - 3:00 pm
Session 272 Bernhard 204
Classical Philosophy in the Lands of Islam and Its Influence II
Sponsor: Aquinas and ‘the Arabs’ International Working Group
Organizer: Richard C. Taylor, Marquette Univ./DeWulf Mansion Centre, KU Leuven
Presider: Richard C. Taylor
Considering Human Free Choice and Prophecy: al-Farabi on Future Contingency
Nicholas Oschman, Marquette Univ.
Boulēsis, Voluntas, and Irādah: The “Aristotelian” Conception of the Will in
Medieval Latin and Arabic Philosophy
Traci Phillipson, Marquette Univ.
Comparative Study of al-Kindi and Thomas Aquinas: The Proofs of God’s
Existence
Kishimzhan Eshenkulova, Kyrgystan-Turkey Manas Univ.
Special Related Event with the Society for Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy (SMRP)
Friday 15 May 2015, 3:30-5:00 pm
Session 335 Bernhard, Brown & Gold Room
Medieval Contributions to the Theory of Knowledge (A Roundtable Discussion)
Sponsor: Medieval Institute, Western Michigan Univ.; Society for Medieval and
Renaissance Philosophy
Organizer: Richard C. Taylor, Marquette Univ./DeWulf Mansion Centre, KU Leuven
Presider: Eileen C. Sweeney, Boston College
Intellectual Abstraction in the Arabic Tradition and Its Influence
Richard C. Taylor
Self-Knowledge and Reflexivity in Aquinas
Therese Scarpelli Cory, Univ. of Notre Dame
Theory of Knowledge in the Christian High Middle Ages (1200–1350)
Robert T. Lambert, Carroll College
Phenomenal Consciousness and the Mind-Body Problem in Duns Scotus
Richard Cross, Univ. of Notre Dame
Nicholas of Cusa: New Directions
Jason Aleksander, St. Xavier Univ.
Some other related sessions at the 2016 International Medieval Congress:
Thursday 14 May 2015, 10:00 - 11:30 am
Session 6 Valley II Gerneau Lounge
Thomas Aquinas I
Sponsor: Thomas Aquinas Society
Organizer: John F. Boyle, Univ. of St. Thomas, Minnesota
Presider: Robert Barry, Providence College
Between Protestantism and Molinism: Spanish Thomists on the Rationality
of Faith
Thomas Osborne, Jr., Univ. of St. Thomas, Houston
Panis Vitae : Aquinas, John 6, and the Necessity of the Eucharist for Salvation
Daniel M. Garland, Jr., Ave Maria Univ.
The Fourth Way and the Platonici
Lawrence Dewan, OP, Dominican Univ. College
Thursday 14 May 2015, 10:00 - 11:30 am
Session 7 Valley 1 Hadley 101
The Impact of Scotus, Ockham, and Auriol in Iberia and Latin America I: Physics,
Metaphysics, and Knowledge
Organizer: Katherine H. Tachau, Univ. of Iowa, and Andrea M. Gayoso, Univ. de
la Republica
Presider: Katherine H. Tachau
John the Canon and Franciscan Physics
Chris Schabel, Univ. of Cyprus
Alfonso Briceño (1587–1668) on John Duns Scotus’s Philosophical Theology:
The Case of Infinity, Divine Relations and Transcendental Disjunctive Properties
Roberto Hoffmeister Pich, Pontifícia Univ. Católica do Rio Grande do Sul
Fear and Certitude in Brazilian Colonial Period: The Case of Georgio Benci
Alfredo Storck, Univ. Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
Thursday 14 May 2015, 1:30 - 3:00 pm
Session 52 Valley II Garneau Lounge
Thomas Aquinas II
Sponsor: Thomas Aquinas Society
Organizer: John F. Boyle, Univ. of St. Thomas, Minnesota
Presider: Eric M. Johnston, Seton Hall Univ.
On the Development of Saint Thomas’s Views regarding the Relative Importance
of Embodiment for Beatitude
Christopher M. Brown, Univ. of Tennessee–Martin
Free Choice and Consent in Aquinas: Did Aquinas Change His Views on Will?
Nicholas Kahm, St. Michael’s College
Thomas Aquinas on the Fides Quae : Reading In III Sent. , d. 24, in the Light of
the Early Thirteenth Century
Jacob W. Wood, Franciscan Univ. of Steubenville
Session 54 Valley I Shilling Lounge
Medieval Tradition of Natural Law I: In Honor of Cary J. Nederman’s
Contribution to the Study of Natural Law in Medieval Political Philosophy
Organizer: Harvey Brown, Univ. of Western Ontario
Presider: Harvey Brown
Polish Lesson of Tolerance: Historical and Philosophical Background
Magdalena Plotka, Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski Univ.
Bartolome de las Casas’s Defense of the Indians and the Long, Very Long,
Short, and Very Short History of Human Rights
Paul J. Cornish, Grand Valley State Univ.
Linages of the Law in the Works of Cary J. Nederman
Gerson Moreno-Riano, Regent Univ.
Thursday 14 May 2015, 3:30 - 5:00 pm
Session 102 Valley II Garneau Lounge
Thomas Aquinas III
Sponsor: Thomas Aquinas Society
Organizer: John F. Boyle, Univ. of St. Thomas, Minnesota
Presider: Paul Gondreau, Providence College
Thomas Aquinas on the Punishment for Original Sin
Daniel W. Houck, Southern Methodist Univ.
Subsistence in the Christology of Hugh of Saint Victor and Thomas Aquinas
John Froula, St. Paul Seminary School of Divinity, Univ. of St. Thomas,
Minnesota
Angels as Ministers of Christ’s Priesthood in Saint Thomas Aquinas’s Summa
theologiae
Jonathan M. Kaltenbach, Univ. of Notre Dame
Thursday 14 May 2015, 3:30 - 5:00 pm
Session 104 Valley 1 Shilling Lounge
Medieval Tradition of Natural Law II: Natural Law and Moral Philosophy
Organizer: Harvey Brown, Univ. of Western Ontario
Presider: Harvey Brown
Francisco Suarez and the Idea of Natural Religion
Toy-Fung Tung, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY
Legal Moralism? A Problem about Good Samaritans
David Conter, Huron Univ. College
If Thomas Aquinas Were Alive Today
Bernie Koenig, Fanshawe College
Thursday 14 May, 7:30 - 9:00 pm
Session 145 Valley III Stinson Lounge
Therese Scarpelli Cory’s Aquinas on Human Self-Knowledge : Author Meets Critics
Sponsor: Society for Medieval Logic and Metaphysics
Organizer: Alexander W. Hall, Clayton State Univ.
Presider: Alexander W. Hall Information Processing and Me
J. T. Paasch, Georgetown Univ.
Human Intellectual Potency and the “Genus of Intelligibles” in Thomas Aquinas
Brian T. Carl, Dominican House of Studies
Respondent: Therese Scarpelli Cory, Univ. of Notre Dame/Univ. Würzburg
Friday 15 May 2015, 10:00 - 11:30 am
Session 176 Valley II Eicher 202
Philosophical Questions in the Sentences Commentary of Saint Bonaventure (A
Roundtable)
Sponsor: Franciscan Institute, St. Bonaventure Univ.
Organizer: Gregory F. LaNave, Dominican House of Studies
Presider: Michael Sirilla, Franciscan Univ. of Steubenville
A roundtable discussion with Marilyn McCord Adams, Rutgers Univ.; Richard
Cross, Univ. of Notre Dame; Christopher Cullen, SJ, Fordham Univ.; David Twetten,
Marquette Univ.; Kevin Hughes, Villanova Univ.; Timothy B. Noone, Catholic
Univ. of America; and R. E. Houser, Univ. of St. Thomas, Houston.
Saturday 16 May 2015, 10:00 - 11:30 am
Session 340 Valley II LeFevre Lounge
Philosophy of Saint Thomas Aquinas I: Metaphysics
Sponsor: Center for Thomistic Studies, Univ. of St. Thomas, Houston
Organizer: R. E. Houser, Center for Thomistic Studies, Univ. of St. Thomas, Houston
Presider: R. E. Houser
Co-Existing Principles of Being
Mark K. Spencer, Univ. of St. Thomas, Minnesota
Aspects of Esse in the Thomistic Metaphysics of Joseph Owens
Kevin White, Catholic Univ. of America
Albertus Magnus and Thomas Aquinas on “Better Known” in Aristotle’s
Posterior Analytics and Physics
John Boyer, Center for Thomistic Studies, Univ. of St. Thomas, Houston, and
Daniel Wagner, Center for Thomistic Studies, Univ. of St. Thomas, Houston
Saturday 16 May 2015, 1:30 - 3:00 pm
Session 398 Valley II LeFevre Lounge
Philosophy of Saint Thomas Aquinas II: Ethics
Sponsor: Center for Thomistic Studies, Univ. of St. Thomas, Houston
Organizer: R. E. Houser, Center for Thomistic Studies, Univ. of St. Thomas, Houston
Presider: Randall Smith, Univ. of St. Thomas, Houston
Is the Good the Object of Love of Friendship?
Jordan Olver, St. Thomas More College, Univ. of Saskatchewan
Aquinas and the Stranger: Biblical Basis and Metaphysical Twist
Mary C. Sommers, Center for Thomistic Studies, Univ. of St. Thomas, Houston
Why Did Aquinas Hold Killing Is Sometimes Licit, but Never Lying?
John Skalko, Center for Thomistic Studies, Univ. of St. Thomas, Houston
Saturday 16 May 2014, 3:30 - 5:00 pm
Session 456 Valley II LeFevre Lounge
Philosophy of Saint Thomas Aquinas III: Human Nature
Sponsor: Center for Thomistic Studies, Univ. of St. Thomas, Houston
Organizer: R. E. Houser, Center for Thomistic Studies, Univ. of St. Thomas, Houston
Presider: Randall Smith, Univ. of St. Thomas, Houston
Personalism and the Passions: Dante’s Thomistic Understanding of the Development
of the Passions through Personal Relations
Margaret I. Hughes, College of Mt. St. Vincent
Love and the Feminine Genius
Susan Selner-Wright, St. John Vianney Seminary
Freedom in Beatitude: The Eschatological Nature of Free Will in Aquinas in
Comparison to Augustine
Mikail Whitfield, Ave Maria Univ.
